Thankyou for your helpful recommendations.
Your friend's being in Jail for what ever
reason should not be an obstacle to learning Old Norse, there should be
plenty of opportunities to enquire at a library in your own town for books,
personally I have a strong feeling for the books published by the University
College London, for they also run the Viking Society for Northern Research,
these books are not really expensive and Amazon would likely have them, but
try Googling for the Viking Society for Northern Research and see what
develops
The Books are by Michael Barnes and Anthony
Faulkes, Professor Barnes' knowledge of Old Norse is outstanding, as indeed
is that of his colleague.
The books are in three Volumes soft cover, and
doubtless a Dictionary (Recommend Zoega)
of course you will find there are many people
still devoted to E V Gordon's Introduction to Old Norse, but the Viking
Society's books have the edge to my mind, Biased - oh Yes but not
I think without reason
Well Randall I wish you every
success
Patricia
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Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 6:18
AM
Subject: [norse_course] my son got
killed and I have a friend in prison
Hi, I am new to this group. My nineteen-and-a-half year
old son got
drowned trying to save his mother in a flood 56 weeks ago
in
Virginia.
Jamie (my son) was very into dragons and had dragon
tattooes which he
had designed himself. My penpal who is in prison in
Florida and
extremely into runes and Odin had a vision in which he saw
my son
feasting with Odin because he had died a hero and he drew me a
nice
picture of a dragon in honour of my son.
I am a descendant of
Odin through Rolf the Ganger and my friend, who
is
of Irish
ancestry, knows of no such descent himself but is extremely
drawn to
Norse and Viking culture. Because he's incarcerated in Florida
which
maintains a website showing every inmate's photogragh and record,
it
is possible to check him out thoroughly in advance of any contact
with
him.
I found this group searching on the Internet for a way to help my
friend learn Norse so he'd be able to study original texts about Odin
but, I am not really sure how to go about this. I've never taught
anyone a language before and, haven't learnt Norse yet myself.
Cany
anyone please advise me?